For starters, the enforcement date is actually today. The May 25th enforcement date is scheduled for European time; many European Union countries are approximately six hours ahead of Eastern Time in the United States. Later on this afternoon the clock will strike midnight throughout Europe, signaling the enforcement of perhaps the most stringent, comprehensive set of regulations to affect IT …

Processing, analyzing, and capitalizing on big data generated in the Internet of Things is an exacting task for any organization. The most lucrative use cases for the IoT require acting in real time on continuously generated streaming data from sources like industrial equipment sensors, autonomous or connected vehicles, or physical infrastructure for smart cities. But while most users tend to …

The perceived benefits of low cost storage, per-usage pricing models, and flexible accessibility—and those facilitated by multi-tenant, public cloud providers in particular—are compelling. Across industries and use cases, organizations are hastening to migrate to the cloud for applications that are increasingly becoming more mission critical with each deployment. What many fail to realize (until after the fact) is that the …

Data modeling is an integral prerequisite for loading data for both analytics and applications. Conventional approaches to data modeling in relational settings were frequently laborious, in some cases disproportionately monopolizing enterprise resources prior to data-based action. However, with the onset of big data platforms such as NoSQL options and Hadoop, such resource-intensive approaches to designing and re-designing schema “are just …

The surging interest in blockchain initially pertained to its utility as the underlying architecture for the cryptocurrency phenomenon. Nonetheless, its core attributes (its distributed ledger system, immutability, and requisite permissions) are rapidly gaining credence in an assortment of verticals for numerous deployments. Blockchain techniques are routinely used in several facets of supply chain management, insurance, and finance. In order to …

The dichotomy between cloud computing and security is readily apparent; for years, security was touted as one of the caveats of utilizing the cloud. Depending on who you talk to, it still is. On the one hand, there are those who cite the security benefits of the cloud, and those of public cloud providers in particular. Proponents claim it’s difficult …

Organizations running Business Intelligence in the cloud realize a number of distinct advantages that vastly outstrip those of on-premise deployments. The former facilitates unparalleled scalability which, when contrasted with the physical infrastructure required to keep pace on premise, becomes far more cost-efficient than the latter could ever be. As such, it provides a much greater efficiency of resources and, when …

Historically, data discovery has existed at the nexus point between data preparation and analytics. The discovery process was frequently viewed as the means of gathering the requisite data for analytics while illustrating relationships between data elements which might inform them. Today, data discovery’s utility has considerably broadened. Aided by machine learning and data cataloging techniques, data discovery is playing an …

Artificial Intelligence may well be the most influential suite of technologies to impact the enterprise for the next several years. Its learning capabilities and decision support propensity are horizontally acclaimed; many consider machine learning a panacea for data-driven processes in general. Still, an often neglected aspect of the transformative impact of AI is exactly how to implement it to gain …

The intentions of the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation are as laudable as they are simple. According to Osterman Research Group Principal Analyst and Founder Michael Osterman, the goal of this standard “forces companies to get their data governance under control and allows consumers, or owners of data, to be in control of their data.” The social forces impacting …

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